ON1 Photo RAW is the best alternative to Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom, all in a single editor for Mac or Windows. With powerful yet easy-to-use AI editing tools and features, it's everything a photographer needs to create professional-quality photos.

Version 2026 introduces powerful new features to make your editing workflow easier, faster, and better!

• Cinematic Depth Lighting: Use the new Depth Lighting filter with AI depth masks to add cinematic effects quickly.
• 1-Click Subject and Background Masking: Automatically create precise masks for subjects and backgrounds with ease.
• Starting Points in ON1 Effects: Simplify edits by selecting your favorite filters with a single click.
• Split Field Filter: Expand landscape backgrounds without losing foreground detail.
• Built-in Resize AI 2026: Achieve sharp, super-resolution enlargements from small or noisy images.
• Improved Masking: Enjoy cleaner edges and reduced need for manual touch-ups.
• Perspective Correction: Fix crooked buildings without losing image edges or introducing black corners.
• Advanced Masking: Stack and combine masks for unlimited creative control.
• Workspace Customization: Float or dock panes to maximize your editing space.
• Filter Favorites & Search: Quickly find and apply your favorite filters.
• Double Exposure Filter: Create artistic double exposures effortlessly.
• Film Negative Inversion: Easily invert and color-correct film negatives.
• Motion Filter: Add realistic motion blur effects to still photos.
• New Creative Filters: Transform your photos with Depth Lighting, Split Field, Double Exposure, and Motion filters.
• Super Resolution Models: Includes new Highest Quality and Standard AI models for sharper, cleaner enlargements.
• Negative Mode: Automate inversion and color correction for digitized film negatives.
• Grayscale Support: Native editing for grayscale images.
• UI Improvements: Enhanced customization with dockable panels and floatable tool panes.
• More Camera Support: Compatibility with the latest camera models.
• Windows ARM Support: Optimized performance on Windows ARM devices.

Both editions function as standalone apps on Mac and Windows, offering all the same features. The MAX Edition includes additional plugin capabilities, allowing you to use ON1 tools like Effects and Resize directly within Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, and other editors.

No. You can own Photo RAW or Photo RAW MAX for a one-time purchase. The license for Photo RAW 2026 includes free updates to version 2026, but it does not include major upgrades in future years. Choose a subscription and you'll always have the latest version of Photo RAW MAX.

Subscribing to Photo RAW MAX gives you access to current and future versions of Photo RAW MAX at a significantly lower price than the license. It also includes 200 GB of ON1 Cloud Sync for sharing photos across devices.

Subscribe to ON1 Everything Plus to get our top-tier plan. It includes Photo RAW MAX, all of the individual plugin/standalone installers plus future titles yet to be released, installation on up to 5 computers, 1 TB of Cloud Sync storage, and unlimited access to ON1 Plus training.